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Told in the world of early 19th century Japan, Akira Kurosawa's "Red Beard" is a passionate humanist statement, almost the last he would make about an exemplary human being. After completing its two years of filming in 1965, the master would turn to flawed and damaged characters -- one of them, the hero of "Ran" (1985)  inspired by Shakespeare's King Lear. Dr. Kyojô Niide would be the closest he ever came to creating a man moral and good in every respect. In the fil...

  Kuzey Kıbrıs’a iki türlü ulaşım var. En pratik ve yaygın olanı uçakla gitmek. İstanbul’dan ve Adana’dan neredeyse her saat başı, diğer birçok büyük şehirden de günde üç dört tarifeli sefer düzenleniyor. Biraz zahmetli ama uçmaktan çekinenler için diğer bir ulaşım da gemi. Girne’den ve Mağusa’dan Mersin/Taşucun’a tarifeli gemi seferleri düzenleniyor. Arabalı gemilerle yapılan seferler gece ve gündüz olmak üzere iki sefer yapılıyor ve yaklaş...

Thousands of ancient watchtowers – “torries” in Italian – survive along the coasts of Italy, but very few people (even those who live near them) know much about their fascinating history and purpo Thousands of ancient watchtowers – “torries” in Italian – survive along the coasts of Italy, but very few people (even those who live near them) know much about their fascinating history and purpose. “Barbarossa and the Towers of Italy,” a new documentary film reveals the never-bef...

New Hampshire Magazine New Hampshire chefs deliver the goods, minus the traditional restaurant setting May 19, 2021 Matt and Dalila Provencher, owners of Red Beard’s Kitchen, use the facilities at Noodz on Elm Street in Manchester. “Ghost kitchens” perhaps sounds like the paranormal hunter TV show producers have run out of ideas, but there are no jump scares here, just tasty takeout. Most Granite Staters’ first introduction to the concept was the news that Food Network celebrity chef Gu...

Akira Kurosawa Films 101: 1991 – 1993 Today we end our examination of every Akira Kurosawa film. After the ambitious epic Ran, Kurosawa embarked a three smaller but more personal films. Akira Kurosawa’s Dreams (1991) Understanding that Dreams was among the last films Akira Kurosawa made inexorably adds a regal and elegiac air to the proceedings. The fact that the work is semi-autobiographical (based on or inspired by actual dreams the legendary director had during the course of his life) r...

Comparing Akira Kurosawa’s Early and Late Films There are striking differences between Kurosawa’s earlier and later films, including in the different ways people have responded to these two groups of films. Contrasting Akira Kurosawa’s earlier period with his late period has generated some fascinating debate. The Early Period (sometimes called the Creative Period) extends from his brilliant 1943 debut Sanshiro Sugata and Dodes’Ka-den and concludes with his final film, Madadayo, in 19...

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The Skybolt, as it was known, was a hefty two-stage solid rocket mounting a one-megaton W-59 warhead. Heres What You Need to Remember: The Polaris Sales Agreement proved so successful that it became the model for its successor involving the Trident SLBMs developed in the 1970s. Its impact continues today: both the U.S. and Royal Navies are codeveloping the Common Missile Compartment for both the U.S. Columbia-class and the British Successor-class missile subs. Mark Twain probably didn’t make...

Sea shanties have taken the internet by storm. They’re catchy, they’re historical, and they may even have been sung on ships named “The Queen Esther” and “The Shield of Abraham.” That is to say, they may have been sung by Jewish pirates. Jews settled throughout the Caribbean from the mid-17th century to the mid-19th century. Many had fled from Spain during the Inquisition, or were “conversos,” Jews who had been forced to convert to Roman Catholicism under Queen Isabella’s reig...